LabVIEW 2012 Trial Period Only 7 Days???

[smercurio_fc]

Did I read that right on the download popup? The LabVIEW 2012 evaluation period is only 7 days? Whose bright idea was this? Yes, I'm talking to you, NI.

[crossrulz]

From what I've heard, the initial trial is 7 days.  You can get it extended by talking to NI.  There's also a dialog on the "license expired" window to get the trial time extended.  I want to say the extended time is something like 45 days.  But don't take my work for it.

[billko]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

Did I read that right on the download popup? The LabVIEW 2012 evaluation period is only 7 days? Whose bright idea was this? Yes, I'm talking to you, NI.

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Wow - don't install it on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving!!!

[billko]

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@crossrulz wrote:

From what I've heard, the initial trial is 7 days.  You can get it extended by talking to NI.  There's also a dialog on the "license expired" window to get the trial time extended.  I want to say the extended time is something like 45 days.  But don't take my work for it.

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I would only implement something like this if there were only a limited amount of eval licenses to go 'round.  Having an eval license expire after 7 days will free it up for recycling sooner if the user has abandoned it.  I mean, why else put the user through something as unfriendly/humiliating as asking for more time after just a week of eval as if you were doing something that needed justification?

[Mark_Ramsdale]

If you open an account on NI.com you get the extra 45 days.

[smercurio_fc]

This tells me this is a pure marketing ploy. It forces you to provide your name to NI to get an extended trial. Leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

At work we use LabVIEW 8.2, and we have no reason/compunction to upgrade any time soon. As I've stated publicly before, I have trial versions of LabVIEW installed on virtual machines for the sole purpose of trying to provide assistance here in this forum. At the end of the trial I restore the virtual machine image. I do not use the newer versions of software for work, or for home.  I ONLY use newer versions of LabVIEW it to help on this forum, so trying to tell my manager that we need to upgrade not because we need to for work, but for me to help here is obviously ludicrous. Restoring the image every 30 days or so was OK - it at least allowed me to still try to provide answers for people posting VIs in newer versions of LabVIEW. However, with only a 7-day trial for LabVIEW 2012, this would no longer practical. How would this work for restored virtual machines, I wonder? Does anyone know? I'll have to try it and see. If the extension only works once, then that pretty much limits the amount of support that I will be able to provide in this forum. Oh well. C'est la vie.

[ramkumarrmk14@yahoo.com]

i need lab view cd

[Dennis_Knutson]

Click on the DVD request.

[ToeCutter]

So if I'm understanding correctly, you think you're entitled to an infinitely long trial of LabVIEW (basically a free copy) because you use it to help out on the forums? I'm really dumbfounded that someone would come on here to complain that a shorter evaluation period makes it harder for them to produce workarounds for the evaluation limits.

It's not a ploy- the sole reason for the existence of evaluation copies is to try to entice users to buy the full version. It's not in any way intimated that it serves any other purpose.

[AKA_TG]

I totally agree in the context of this..

Somehow this decision was made by a group of people sitting at a meeting somewhere. they made this decision without any regard for what effect

it may have on customers and users of LabVIEW.

OR

they did consider this particular effect on the customer and decided it was not worth troubling about.

In either case Customer or potential one has to take risk to give out (and validate) personal information just to try out NI software.

The risk that the software may not be correct and may be wasting customer's valuable time is not considered at all.

This model troubles me because it places all risk on the guy who can least afford the risk. The end user of the software. The customer. and I see it a lot now adays in purchasing just about anything.

Anyway Im just gabbing nonsense. Ignore my griping please.